However, I was very much taken with the prospect of working in the aerospace industry on the Apollo moon project with a salary much higher than academia offered.

但是，当时进入航空航天领域阿波罗登月项目的工作前景使我十分心动，因为这一领域的工资要远远高于学术界。

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While scientists were studying the stars and moon to solve the longitude problem, a man named John Harrison was working on another project.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

That project involves crashing a rocket stage into the moon's south pole.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Project Apollo would land men on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Standing beside scale models of research stations on Mars and the moon, Miller said the project will encourage commercial ventures to follow the path NASA blazes into space.

NPR: Space Station To Get $18 Million Balloon-Like Room

It has shown what can be done when people from divergent cultures come together to pursue a common goal, and along the way it has captured the popular imagination like no science project since the moon shots of the 1960s.

ECONOMIST: Science

Unlike the effort to decode the human genome, or the project to put a man on the moon, the mapping of the human brain is a fuzzy endeavor, with no obvious milestones along the way.

WSJ: Obama Gives Details of Brain-Research Project